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Hindi Awards 17th Filmfare Awards - Cast & Crew

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1. Sharmila Tagore


14-05-2017/sharmila-tagore.png Sharmila Tagore is a Bengali actress, who later shifted to the Hindi film industry, who was born on 8th December, 1944. Apart from being an actress, she stood as a member of Indian Film Censor Board for seven years. She was also chosen as UNICEF Goodwill ambassador from India. On the other hand, she was one of the jury members...
Date of Birth: 08-12-1944
Age: 79
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills:
Date of Birth: 08-12-1944
Age: 79
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Skills: Movie Actress

2. Tanuja Mukherjee


Tanuja-Samarth.jpg Tanuja is a popular Indian actress, who is also mother to Kajol and Tanisha Mukherjee, two well-known actresses in the film fraternity. She was born on the 23rd of September, in 1943. She has been most popularly known for her roles in movies like Baharein Phir Bhi Aayengi. The movie has an interesting plot of a reporter who gets thrown...
Date of Birth: 23-09-1943
Age: 81
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-09-1943
Age: 81
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi

3. Lata Mangeshkar


15-05-2017/lata-mangeshkar.png Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had formal training in music from her father. Her father ran a theater company in Mumbai, where she began to learn music with her father's grudging approval, and with whom she also sang a song. As her father was a conservative man, film music was not appreciated at her home. After the theater company...
Date of Birth: 28-09-1929
Date of Death: 06-02-2022
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-09-1929
Date of Death: 06-02-2022
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer

4. Laxmikant Pyarelal


laxmikant-pyarelal.png Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarela l Ramprasad Sharma, popularly known as Laxmikant-Pyarelal in the music industry, were at the zenith of their profession during the 70s and 80s. Ek Do Teen and Jumma Chumma were the top charters during the late 80s. Laxmikant was born on 3rd November 1937 and Pyarelal on 3rd September 1940. Starting their careers in orchestra, this...
Date of Birth: 03-11-1937
Date of Death: 25-05-1998
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-11-1937
Date of Death: 25-05-1998
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Musician

5. Pran


23-06-2017/pran.jpg Pran Krishan Sikand known as Pran was an Indian actor. This legend was born in New Delhi during the British rule. His dad late Kewal Krishan Sikand, who was a Civil Contractor for the Government and had a transferable job. Due to which he did his schooling from various schools in Kapurthala, Unnao, Meerut, Dehradun and Rampur. He was excellent in his...
Date of Birth: 12-02-1920
Date of Death: 12-07-2013
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-02-1920
Date of Death: 12-07-2013
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor, Villain

6. Hrishikesh Mukherjee


19-04-2017/hrishikesh-mukherjee.png Hrishikesh Mukherjee is a film director, writer and producer in Bollywood. He is well known for giving a facelift to the career of Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Jaya Bhaduri, Rekha and Rajesh Khanna.  Hrishikesh was born in Calcutta on 30 September 1922. He began his career as an editor and assistant director under Bimal Roy. Much earlier, he was associated with Calcutta’s...
Date of Birth: 30-09-1922
Date of Death: 27-08-2006
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-09-1922
Date of Death: 27-08-2006
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

7. Kishore Kumar


24-03-2017/kishore-kumar---hindi.png Kishore Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who had no formal training in music world. The most easily recalled image of Kishore Kumar that comes in our mind is of his smiling with eyes. He was not just the singer, but a composer, actor and even a script-writer. He is also known for having lent his voice for...
Date of Birth: 04-08-1929
Date of Death: 13-10-1987
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 04-08-1929
Date of Death: 13-10-1987
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Actor

8. Ramanand Sagar


06-02-2017/ramanand-sagar.png Ramanand Sagar is an Indian filmmaker, director, and writer who has made numerous hit films in Bollywood and enthralled the audiences over few decades. But he became a household name by directing the famous TV serial ‘Ramayan’ which had Arun Govil and Deepika in the cast. This TV serial was telecast on Doordarshan and could keep the viewers intact for...
Date of Birth: 29-12-1917
Date of Death: 12-12-2005
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 29-12-1917
Date of Death: 12-12-2005
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

9. Mohammed Rafi


06-02-2017/mohammed-rafi.jpg Mohammed Rafi is a renowned Indian playback singer who dominated Bollywood for over three decades where no singer could equal his mighty classical voice or even come closer to him in his voice quality; that was appreciated across the globe. He was at the height of his career when actors like Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, and Raj Kapoor ruled the...
Date of Birth: 24-12-1924
Date of Death: 31-07-1980
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 24-12-1924
Date of Death: 31-07-1980
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

10. Shankar Jaikishan


19-04-2017/shankar-jaikishan.png Shankar Jaikishan is a duo musical composer in Bollywood who dominated the film industry for three decades.  It is an unusual story of two classical musical composers who got united together as they had a personal liking for each other. Although Shankar Singh was born in Telangana and Jaikishan in Gujarat, they met each other in Mumbai in Prithvi Theaters...
Date of Birth: 15-10-1922
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-10-1922
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Music Director

11. Mehmood Ali


mehmood-ali.jpg Mehmood Ali is one of our greatest comedian actors, who had acted in over 300 Hindi films. Born on 29 September 1932, his memorable films include Kunwara Baap, where he acted with versatile actress Manorama from Tamil film. The story had a message on polio vaccination and was essayed on the backdrop of a newly born son who was rescued...
Date of Birth: 29-09-1932
Date of Death: 23-07-2004
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 29-09-1932
Date of Death: 23-07-2004
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Actor

12. Ashokkumar


03-05-2017/ashok-kumar---old.jpg One would be at a loss, wondering where to start when writing about a film legend like AshokKumar. After all, he is considered to be one of Indian film industry’s greatest actors, who has performed as the romantic hero, antagonist as well as in various other shades of character roles with equal aplomb. AshokKumar really was witness to a very...
Date of Birth: 13-10-1911
Date of Death: 10-12-2001
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-10-1911
Date of Death: 10-12-2001
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Movie Actor

13. Yash Chopra


yash-chopra.jpg Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king of romance’ in Indian cinema for directing films like kabhie Kabhie. Daag, Noorie, Silsila, Darr, Chandni, Lamhe, Dil To Pagal Hai, etc. Earlier, he made some serious and social films like Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt, Dharmputra, and Ittefaq, etc. He was a trendsetter as a filmmaker. Yash Chopra gave Bollywood the...
Date of Birth: 27-09-1932
Date of Death: 21-10-2012
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-09-1932
Date of Death: 21-10-2012
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director